TY - JOUR
T1 - Smart interface switching for energy efficient vertical handovers in ns-2
AU - Bastos, J.
AU - Albano, Michele
AU - Marques, Hugo
AU - Ribeiro, José
AU - Rodriguez, Jonathan
AU - Verikoukis, Christos
PY - 2012/9/25
Y1 - 2012/9/25
N2 - The growing presence of concurrent heterogeneous wireless access networks, together with the increasing service demands from the end-users, require re-thinking of current access selection polices and appropriate management mechanisms, namely concerning quality of service, energy efficiency, etc. The recent IEEE 802.21 standard introduces link layer intelligence as well as related network information to upper layers in order to optimise handovers between networks of different technologies, such as WiMAX, Wi-Fi and 3GPP. With the massification of mobile terminals with multiple wireless interfaces it is important to efficiently manage those interfaces not only to appropriately provide the requested services to the user, but also to do that in an energy efficient way in order to allow higher mobility to the user by extending the battery life of its terminal. The study the IEEE 802.21 standard is briefly introduced, presented in the signalling in a handover between WiMAX and Wi-Fi, and exploited through an implementation in ns-2 introducing a simple, but effective, energy-saving approach.
AB - The growing presence of concurrent heterogeneous wireless access networks, together with the increasing service demands from the end-users, require re-thinking of current access selection polices and appropriate management mechanisms, namely concerning quality of service, energy efficiency, etc. The recent IEEE 802.21 standard introduces link layer intelligence as well as related network information to upper layers in order to optimise handovers between networks of different technologies, such as WiMAX, Wi-Fi and 3GPP. With the massification of mobile terminals with multiple wireless interfaces it is important to efficiently manage those interfaces not only to appropriately provide the requested services to the user, but also to do that in an energy efficient way in order to allow higher mobility to the user by extending the battery life of its terminal. The study the IEEE 802.21 standard is briefly introduced, presented in the signalling in a handover between WiMAX and Wi-Fi, and exploited through an implementation in ns-2 introducing a simple, but effective, energy-saving approach.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84868660762&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1049/iet-com.2011.0811
DO - 10.1049/iet-com.2011.0811
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84868660762
SN - 1751-8628
VL - 6
SP - 2228
EP - 2238
JO - IET Communications
JF - IET Communications
IS - 14
ER -